Word: collectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France is responsible for the present unstable condition in Germany, she is cutting off her own nose. A break-up of that nation would be a calamity not only to France but to the world. However hard it may be to collect reparations from Germany as a whole, collection from a piece-meal Germany would probably be impossible. Nor would her hopes for peace and security be realized. Just as a buffer state might work more harm than good, a conglomeration of microcosms allying with various powers, sought after by various powers, and always standing with chips on their shoulders...
...predestined to stand as the most authoritive, the richest and the fullest. Only one man is equipped with the experience and information to write such a classic, and that is President Emeritus Eliot. Almost three-quarters of a century of continuous contact with Harvard have fitted him preeminently to collect the traditions and expound the doctrines which have guided Harvard men for a dozen generations...
...first place you must understand that I am too ignorant of condi- tions in America to express any opinion on them: I have but just begun to collect opinions of Harvard University. And even in English universities, my experience has been such as to enable me to speak with authority of but one of them,--and that one naturally enough, is Oxford...
...general, the Protestant churches of any one sect are linked together in some sort of association. The association controls certain general moneys, and can therefore withhold such moneys or privileges from churches it deems deficient in creedal glory. On the other hand, the association collects its money chiefly through its individual churches and cannot collect money from a church which it has expelled from the association. The question resolves itself to this. For what creedal deficiencies or other cause will a Protestant association shed...
...campaign has been set at $5000. Of this sum it is expected that $1000 will be raised in the graduate schools and the remaining $4000 will be given by the College. An especial attempt will be made this year to make the canvass of the College complete and to collect something from everyone...